Thursday, March 8, 2012

Cold Sweat

Just when you think there’s nothing new to be added to the creepy people in a house horror genre, director Adrián García Bogliano throws a curve-ball that knocks you right between the eyes. A couple of really creepy old guys, refugees from the blood thirsty dictatorship that rules over Argentina in the 1970s, lure young girls into their home through the Internet and subject them to weird experiments using some very unstable nitroglycerin left over from their heyday. From the first explosion to the last, Bogliano fills the screen with some truly terrify images, but what makes it more than a simple gore fest is the way he never lets the tension ease up. It almost gets to the point that you wish something – or somebody – would blow up just for the release. Then it does.

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